Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

2011-04-20 Thread Kiss Gabor (Bitman)
> There are other definitions for "optimum" such as minimal propagation > latency across all peers, or minimum distance to all other nodes. > Almost certainly someone has modeled gossip protocols, lemme dig a bit. > > The minimum distance is likely computable simply from collecting > a snapshot of

[Sks-devel] Resending: [benf...@parts-unknown.org: "PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery"]

2011-04-20 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, Funny, this list was working fine yesterday. Today seems to be different -- David Benfell http://www.parts-unknown.org/ --- Begin Message --- Hi all, I'm mystified as to how I even got into this: "PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery" I see about running db_recover:

Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

2011-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:52 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > > Almost certainly someone has modeled gossip protocols, lemme dig a bit. Caveat: This is just the 3-5 minute quick skim search. Take all my comments as guesses. This link http://www.distributed-systems.net/maarten/dat

Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

2011-04-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:38 AM, Gabor Kiss wrote: >> Are there any recommendations for the number of peers each keyserver >> should have in the membership file? > > Not yet. :-) > > In theory an optimal value could be computed but there are > too many parameters (e.g. network delay and bandwidth,

Re: [Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

2011-04-20 Thread Gabor Kiss
> Are there any recommendations for the number of peers each keyserver > should have in the membership file? Not yet. :-) In theory an optimal value could be computed but there are too many parameters (e.g. network delay and bandwidth, probability of hardware errors, average length of outages, cp

[Sks-devel] corrupted database

2011-04-20 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, Reviewing the logs, it appears my trouble began pretty close (I don't know precisely) to when I did an sks dump. I'm now assuming that's the culprit. So several questions arise: 1) Can I use the dump I produced--apparently successfully--to repopulate the database? 2) Should I? Or is t

[Sks-devel] "PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery"

2011-04-20 Thread David Benfell
Hi all, I'm mystified as to how I even got into this: "PANIC: fatal region error detected; run recovery" I see about running db_recover: debian-sks@atlanta:~/DB$ db4.8_recover -v Finding last valid log LSN: file: 22 offset 120 Recovery starting from [21][657] Recovery complete at Wed Apr 20 12:

[Sks-devel] Optimum number of peers

2011-04-20 Thread Andy Ruddock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Are there any recommendations for the number of peers each keyserver should have in the membership file? I'm hesitant to add each and every peering offer, but also want to ensure my keyserver stays current even if one, or a few, peers are down for a

Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver resources

2011-04-20 Thread Gabor Kiss
> I have some (Debian/Slackware) VPS to spare and wonder about the > resources needed to run SKS in the pool of keyservers. I'd build the > database offsite and just transfer it, bandwidth is not an issue. RAM > and CPU usage are, however. Partial answer: Two processes are running. $ ps uww 1423

Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver resources

2011-04-20 Thread Kristian Fiskerstrand
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Sebastian Urbach wrote, On 04/20/2011 04:10 PM: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:54:38 +0200 > markus reichelt wrote: > > Hi, > >> I have some (Debian/Slackware) VPS to spare and wonder about the >> resources needed to run SKS in the pool of keyservers. I

Re: [Sks-devel] keyserver resources

2011-04-20 Thread Sebastian Urbach
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:54:38 +0200 markus reichelt wrote: Hi, > I have some (Debian/Slackware) VPS to spare and wonder about the > resources needed to run SKS in the pool of keyservers. I'd build the > database offsite and just transfer it, bandwidth is not an issue. RAM > and CPU usage are, how

[Sks-devel] keyserver resources

2011-04-20 Thread markus reichelt
Hi, I have some (Debian/Slackware) VPS to spare and wonder about the resources needed to run SKS in the pool of keyservers. I'd build the database offsite and just transfer it, bandwidth is not an issue. RAM and CPU usage are, however. Could someone running SKS in a VPS please comment on this? Th